Where I am Coming From

I just want to make clear where I am coming from. Though I try make my assumptions clear, I will inevitably miss some or take them for granted — that is, consider them too fundamental to state. So let me make a few statements that will hopefully clear up much of the early nitpicks. I warn that I will make hard, even vicious, examination of your stated ideas, should you chose to comment (Note: your ideas, not you; I will be glad to admit error, should I make an unmerited personal attack.)

But comment anyway.

Personal

I am a engineering college student, more contemplative than average and interested in physics, philosophy, math and plenty of other things. I am first-generation Taiwanese American, if the matter becomes important in some comment or post (Warning: Any whining about that whole Taiwan Strait issue will be deleted: here is not the place to discuss it. Consider yourselves warned.).

If by now you haven’t figured out that this is a thinly (if at all) veiled site pertaining to Christianity and Christian living, then you have just been informed of it.

If you want to use the labels, I am an Evangelical Protestant.

A Brief Statement of Faith

For those of a more scholarly bent, you can check out the Chalcedonian Creed or the Nicene Creed.

• I believe in the Trinity: one supreme being in three persons.
• I believe in the Bible: the sole, divine word of God, revealed to each of its many authors by the revelation of the Holy Spirit, inerrant in its original form.
• I believe that Christ is both fully God and fully man, that He is the Son of God, that He came to Earth to save us from our sins by dying in our place, and that He is coming again.
• I believe that by Christ alone, through His grace and our faith in him, we are brought to forgiveness and salvation from our sins that have separated us from the Almighty and put us on the path of destruction and, ultimately, Hell; that in ourselves we can find no hope or even desire to be saved.